Breckinridge family papers

LC control no.	mm 79013698
Type of material	Archival Manuscript/Mixed Formats (Collection)
Main title	Breckinridge family papers, 1752-1965.
Related names	Breckinridge, Clifton Rodes, 1846-1932. Clifton Rodes Breckinridge papers. » More like this Breckinridge, Desha, 1867-1935. Desha Breckinridge papers. » More like this Breckinridge, Henry, 1886-1960. Henry Breckinridge papers. » More like this Breckinridge, John, 1760-1806. John Breckinridge papers. » More like this Breckinridge, John C. (John Cabell), 1821-1875. John C. Breckinridge papers. » More like this Breckinridge, Joseph Cabell, 1842-1920. Joseph Cabell Breckinridge papers. » More like this Breckinridge, Katherine Carson. Katherine Carson Breckinridge papers. » More like this Breckinridge, Madeline McDowell, 1872-1920. Madeline McDowell Breckinridge papers. » More like this Breckinridge, Robert J. (Robert Jefferson), 1800-1871. Robert J. Breckinridge papers. » More like this Breckinridge, Sophonisba Preston, 1866-1948. Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge papers. » More like this Breckinridge, William Campbell Preston, 1837-1904. William Campbell Preston Breckinridge papers. » More like this Desha, Mary, 1850-1911. Mary Desha papers. » More like this
Description	205,000 items. 871 containers plus 2 oversize. 37 microfilm reels. 263 linear feet.
Organized/Arranged	Arranged in 11 series. Series 1: Breckinridge Family Papers, 1752-1904; Series 2: Henry Breckinridge Papers, 1909-1954; Series 3: Joseph Cabell Breckinridge Papers, 1844-1909; Series 4: Madeline (McDowell) Breckinridge Papers, 1895-1921; Series 5: Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Papers, 1807-1871; Series 6: Sophonisba P. Breckinridge Papers, 1873-1949; Series 7: William C.P. Breckinridge Papers, 1851-1904; Series 8: Mary Desha Papers, 1892-1910; Series 9: Other Family Papers, 1779-1965; Series 10: Addition, 1816-1980; and Series 11: Oversize, 1781-1912.
Access advisory	Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.
Invalid LCCN	su 79013698
Biography/History note	Family prominent in Kentucky and national politics and government.
Summary	Correspondence, diaries, speeches and articles, subject files, financial and legal papers, scrapbooks, and other papers of various Breckinridge family members. Includes papers of John Breckinridge relating to his service as Kentucky attorney general and legislator, and U.S. attorney general and senator, and to the Alien and Sedition Acts and the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 and 1799; papers of Robert J. Breckinridge relating chiefly to his ministry in the Presbyterian Church; papers of John C. Breckinridge relating primarily to his service as U.S. representative, his law practice in Lexington, Ky., and his voluntary exile following his service as a Confederate Army general; papers of William Campbell Preston Breckinridge relating to his law practice in Lexington, his Civil War service under Confederate Army General John Hunt Morgan, his editorship of the Lexington Observer and Reporter, and his work as U.S. representative from Kentucky; and papers of Joseph Cabell Breckinridge relating to his service in the Union Army and following the Civil War as Inspector General of the U.S. Army, and to his work in the Sons of the American Revolution. Also includes papers of Clifton Rodes Breckinridge relating to his work as U.S. representative from Kentucky and as American minister to Russia; papers of Mary Desha relating primarily to the Daughters of the American Revolution; papers of Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge chiefly concerning her pioneering efforts in the field of social work and social legislation and her participation in the Pan-American Conference (1933); papers of Madeline McDowell Breckinridge of Lexington relating to her work on behalf of civic affairs, social reform, and women's suffrage at the local, state, and national level; and papers of Henry Breckinridge relating to his service as assistant secretary of war in President Wilson's administration, his World War I service with the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe, his law practice in New York, N.Y., his work as legal counsel in the Lindbergh kidnapping case, his candidacy for the U.S. Senate from New York State as a member of the Constitutional Party (1934), and his entrance in 1936 into presidential preferential primaries in four states opposing Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal; and papers of Desha Breckinridge, Katherine Carson Breckinridge, and other family members. Correspondents include Jane Addams, Henry T. Allen, Alben William Barkley, Braxton Bragg, Carrie Chapman Catt, William Conant Church, Grover Cleveland, John F. Condon, Harold W. Dodds, Jubal Anderson Early, Antoinette Funk, Edward Miner Gallaudet, A.W. Greely, Ernest Gruening, James Guthrie, John Marshall Harlan, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Hilary A. Herbert, Cordell Hull, Harold L. Ickes, Thomas Jefferson, Tom Loftin Johnson, Alfred M. Landon, H.W. Lawton, Robert E. Lee, Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924), William McKinley, James Madison, John Marshall, Nelson Appleton Miles, Samuel Miller, James Monroe, John Hunt Morgan, Frances Perkins, Horace Porter, Hjalmar Johna Fredrik Procopé, Redfield Proctor, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, T.O. Selfridge, Anna Howard Shaw, Isaac Shelby, Jouett Shouse, Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, Adlai E. Stevenson (1835-1914), Oscar Straus, Fred M. Vinson, James Wolcott Wadsworth, William Allen White, Woodrow Wilson, and Stephen Samuel Wise.
Notes	Engravings, maps, photographs, sheet music, and other material: transferred to appropriate divisions of the Library of Congress. Collection material in English. MSS13698
Finding aids	Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997003>
Acquisition source	Gift, Breckinridge family, 1905-1988. Other gifts and purchases, 1908-1981.
Additional formats	Microfilm edition available for the papers of Sophonisba P. Breckinridge (containers 739-778), no. 18,291. Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1981.
Subjects	Addams, Jane, 1860-1935--Correspondence. » More like this Allen, Henry T. (Henry Tureman), 1859-1930--Correspondence. » More like this Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956--Correspondence. » More like this Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876--Correspondence. » More like this Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947--Correspondence. » More like this Church, William Conant, 1836-1917--Correspondence. » More like this Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908--Correspondence. » More like this Condon, John F. (John Francis), 1860-1945--Correspondence. » More like this Dodds, Harold W. (Harold Willis), 1889-1980--Correspondence. » More like this Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894--Correspondence. » More like this Funk, Antoinette, d. 1942--Correspondence. » More like this Gallaudet, Edward Miner, 1837-1917--Correspondence. » More like this Greely, A. W. (Adolphus Washington), 1844-1935--Correspondence. » More like this Gruening, Ernest, 1887-1974--Correspondence. » More like this Guthrie, James, 1792-1869--Correspondence. » More like this Harlan, John Marshall, 1833-1911--Correspondence. » More like this Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893--Correspondence. » More like this Herbert, Hilary A. (Hilary Abner), 1834-1919--Correspondence. » More like this Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955--Correspondence. » More like this Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952--Correspondence. » More like this Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826--Correspondence. » More like this Johnson, Tom Loftin, 1854-1911--Correspondence. » More like this Landon, Alfred M. (Alfred Mossman), 1887-1987--Correspondence. » More like this Lawton, Henry Ware, 1843-1899--Correspondence. » More like this Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870--Correspondence. » More like this Lindbergh, Charles Augustus, 1930-1932--Kidnapping, 1932. » More like this Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924--Correspondence. » More like this McKinley, William, 1843-1901--Correspondence. » More like this Madison, James, 1751-1836--Correspondence. » More like this Marshall, John, 1755-1835--Correspondence. » More like this Miles, Nelson Appleton, 1839-1925--Correspondence. » More like this Miller, Samuel, 1769-1850--Correspondence. » More like this Monroe, James, 1758-1831--Correspondence. » More like this Morgan, John Hunt, 1825-1864--Correspondence. » More like this Perkins, Frances, 1880-1965--Correspondence. » More like this Porter, Horace, 1837-1921--Correspondence. » More like this Procopé, Hjalmar Johan Fredrik, 1889-1954--Correspondence. » More like this Proctor, Redfield, 1831-1908--Correspondence. » More like this Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945--Correspondence. » More like this Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919--Correspondence. » More like this Selfridge, T. O. (Thomas Oliver), 1836-1924--Correspondence. » More like this Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919--Correspondence. » More like this Shelby, Isaac, 1750-1826--Correspondence. » More like this Shouse, Jouett, 1879-1968--Correspondence. » More like this Simms, Ruth Hanna McCormick, 1880-1944--Correspondence. » More like this Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1835-1914--Correspondence. » More like this Straus, Oscar, 1870-1954--Correspondence. » More like this Vinson, Fred M., 1890-1953--Correspondence. » More like this Wadsworth, James Wolcott, 1846-1926--Correspondence. » More like this White, William Allen, 1868-1944--Correspondence. » More like this Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924--Correspondence. » More like this Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel), 1874-1949--Correspondence. » More like this Breckinridge family. » More like this Confederate States of America. Army. » More like this Kentucky. Attorney General's Office. » More like this Kentucky. General Assembly. » More like this United States. Army. » More like this United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces. » More like this United States. Army. Office of the Inspector General. » More like this United States. Attorney-General. » More like this United States. Congress. House. » More like this United States. Congress. Senate. » More like this United States. War Dept. » More like this Constitutional Party. » More like this Daughters of the American Revolution. » More like this Sons of the American Revolution. » More like this Pan-American Conference (1933 : Montevideo, Uruguay) » More like this Lexington observer and reporter. » More like this Alien and Sedition laws, 1798. » More like this American Confederate voluntary exiles. » More like this Diplomatic and consular service, American--Russia. » More like this Kentucky and Virginia resolutions of 1798. » More like this Practice of law--Kentucky--Lexington. » More like this Practice of law--New York (State)--New York. » More like this Presbyterian Church--Clergy. » More like this Presidents--United States--Election--1936. » More like this Social legislation--Kentucky. » More like this Social legislation--United States. » More like this Social service--Kentucky. » More like this Social service--United States. » More like this Women--Suffrage. » More like this Kentucky--Politics and government--1792-1865. » More like this Kentucky--Politics and government--1865-1951. » More like this Russia--Foreign relations--United States. » More like this United States--Foreign relations--Russia. » More like this United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865. » More like this United States--Politics and government--19th century. » More like this United States--Politics and government--20th century. » More like this
Local shelving no.	0314B Oversize 0113J Oversize 5:7 0438N (Unprocessed ac. 24,062) Microfilm 18,291-37N-37P
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